Collaboration and Capacity BuildingThe Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC mission is: To gather and organize all that is known about successful non-school tutor/mentor programs and share that knowledge to expand the availability and enhance the effectiveness of these services to children in inner city Chicago and other poverty areas.http://tutormentorexchange.net/collaboration-and-capacity-building-articles
Fri, 18 Aug 2017 04:43:22 +0000Joomla! 1.5 - Open Source Content Managementen-gbMapping Network Growthhttp://tutormentorexchange.net/sna
http://tutormentorexchange.net/snaKnow your network. Use your Network.

This graphic is part of an essay that you can read at this link. It describes a need to share ideas from the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC with a growing number of people in Chicago and around the country if we are to achieve long-term success in connecting larger numbers of inner city K-12 youth with adult tutors/mentors through well-organized non-school and school-based tutor/mentor programs.

What is Network Analysis?If you have not thought much about network analysis, or how networks of people need to work together to solve complex problems, the links below provide a path for your learning.

How does this impact youth?If you would like to follow our progress in mapping and understanding the Tutor/Mentor Connection network which has grown since 1975 when founder Dan Bassill began his leadership of a volunteer-based tutor/mentor program in Chicago, follow the links below.

New advances in network mapping - since 10/5/12This is an interactive map showing participants of several Facebook groups that I'm part of. If you enter "Dan Bassill" in the search box you can see where Dan is on the map and who he is connected with. http://www.q1000.ro/livingbridges/ Since Dan is founder and president of Tutor/Mentor Connection and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC this map shows people he is connecting with to share ideas and build support for volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs in Chicago and around the world.

]]>tutormentor2@earthlink.net (Dan Bassill)Collaboration & Capacity BuildingSat, 06 Oct 2012 20:25:44 +0000Collect all that is knownhttp://tutormentorexchange.net/collaboration-and-capacity-building-articles/109-collect-all-that-is-known
http://tutormentorexchange.net/collaboration-and-capacity-building-articles/109-collect-all-that-is-knownWhen the Tutor/Mentor Connection was created in 1993 one of our goals was to "collect all that is known" about tutoring/mentoring and education-to-careers in a "library" of knowledgethat anyone can draw from at any time to help kids from a poverty neighborhood get the adult support they need to move to careers. As the Internet became available, this process began to collect ideas from all over the world.

This "mentoring kids to careers" graphic illustrates the career focused goal of the T/MC. Thisknowledge map, illustrates the different types of information being collected. This Debategraph outline is another way of trying to engage people from many places in this discussion. These are intended to serve as a "blueprint" which anyone can draw from, or contribute to. While we will never map all of the knowledge, the ideas we do collect may reach a tipping point where the broader range of ideas leads to more comprehensive solutions applied in more places around the world to help kids move out of poverty and into jobs and careers.

In 2011 the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC was created to support the continued operations of the Tutor/Mentor Connection in Chicago and to help similar intermediary groups form in other cities. Throughout our web sites you'll see the names Tutor/Mentor Connection and Tutor/Mentor Institute used interchangeably. They both focus on the same mission but represent a non profit and a for-profit structure for generating resources.

]]>tutormentor2@earthlink.net (Dan Bassill)Collaboration & Capacity BuildingTue, 21 Oct 2008 21:34:40 +0000The StarFish and the Spider http://tutormentorexchange.net/strategy/knowledgenetworking
http://tutormentorexchange.net/strategy/knowledgenetworkingThe book titled, The Starfish and the Spider, illustrates the T/MC role as a catalyst in building a decentralized network of leaders who support volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs.

Role of Catalyst in Building Network. In a book the role of a catalyst who inspires the growth of a decentralized network of people focused on a common goal is described. This is a role Dan Bassill, founder of the Tutor/Mentor Connection (T/MC) and Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC has taken since 1975. The chart below illustrates how volunteers and leaders reaching into their own networks on a regular basis, can draw volunteers, donors, partners, etc. to information hubs like the http://www.tutormentorconnection.org web site, then on to various neighborhoods in Chicago, or any other city, where they become volunteers, donors, leaders, etc. at existing programs, or where they help form new programs to fill voids. In a single program, where each volunteer works one-on-one with a student, and all students are different, this same concept applies. The volunteer is accessing all of the resources of the program, and fellow volunteers, to find ways to help the youth take charge of his/her own future.

Over the years interns have helped us create a variety of visual presentations that share our strategies. If you review these and discuss them with your own planning team you'll build your own understanding and see ways to apply these ideas in your own community. The complete set of essays can be found in the Library on this site.

]]>tutormentor2@earthlink.net (Dan Bassill)Collaboration & Capacity BuildingWed, 17 Dec 2008 22:17:18 +0000Conferences, Networking, On-line Forumshttp://tutormentorexchange.net/collaboration-and-capacity-building-articles/78-blueprint
http://tutormentorexchange.net/collaboration-and-capacity-building-articles/78-blueprintWithin the Tutor/Mentor Connection web site there are more than 2000 links. Each of these has links to many other sites. This is a worldwide network of people and organizations with common interests. The T/MC uses its May and November Chicago Conferences, and a variety of on-line forums, to build connections between these different groups, and to create public awareness that draws more viewers to each web site, and draws volunteers and donors to youth serving organizations in Chicago and in other cities.

This graphic represents a calendar of quarterly events developed over the past 20 years as part of an effort to bring more attention and resources to volunteer-based tutor/mentor programs operating in Chicago and other cities. Due to a June 2011 change in organizational structure the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC was created to keep this calendar of events in place. We are still looking for partners/sponsors. Read more.

Even if the Tutor/Mentor Institute, LLC does not organize, or lead these events, others can be taking that role, and creating opportunities for program leaders and supporters to connect, while drawing resources directly to the different youth tutoring and/or mentoring programs operating in Chicago or other cities.

For programs to benefit, they must be included in on-line directories.